virtualenv: Unable to create vrtualenv with 1.11 (when virtualenv installed by ez_install/setuptools)

# virtualenv /tmp/123
Overwriting /tmp/123/lib/python2.7/site.py with new content
New python executable in /tmp/123/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...
  Complete output from command /tmp/123/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; pip...ll\"] + sys.argv[1:])" setuptools pip:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/log.py", line 8, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 2696, in <module>
    def _dep_map(self):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 429, in __init__
    def get_resource_stream(manager, resource_name):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 443, in add_entry
    """Is the named resource a directory?  (like ``os.path.isdir()``)"""
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 1722, in find_in_zip
    except AttributeError:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 1298, in has_metadata
    def test(nodelist):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 1614, in _has
    def _parts(self,zip_path):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 1488, in _zipinfo_name
    "Can't perform this operation for loaders without 'get_data()'"
AssertionError: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/PKG-INFO is not a subpath of /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools, pip...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/virtualenv", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.11', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv.py", line 820, in main
    symlink=options.symlink)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv.py", line 988, in create_environment
    install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv.py", line 956, in install_wheel
    'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1'
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv.py", line 898, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /tmp/123/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; pip...ll\"] + sys.argv[1:])" setuptools pip failed with error code 1

# python -V
Python 2.7.3

# pip freeze
Cheetah==2.4.4
GnuPGInterface==0.3.2
Jinja2==2.6
Landscape-Client==12.05
M2Crypto==0.21.1
MarkupSafe==0.15
PAM==0.4.2
PyYAML==3.10
SaltTesting==0.5.5
Twisted-Core==11.1.0
apache-libcloud==0.13.3
apt-xapian-index==0.44
argparse==1.2.1
boto==2.2.2
chardet==2.0.1
cloud-init==0.6.3
command-not-found==0.2.44
configobj==4.7.2
coverage==3.7.1
euca2ools==2.0.0
httplib2==0.7.2
keyring==0.9.2
language-selector==0.1
launchpadlib==1.9.12
lazr.restfulclient==0.12.0
lazr.uri==1.0.3
mock==1.0.1
msgpack-python==0.1.10
oauth==1.0.1
paramiko==1.7.7.1
pyOpenSSL==0.12
pycrypto==2.4.1
pycurl==7.19.0
pyserial==2.5
python-apt==0.8.3ubuntu7.1
python-debian==0.1.21ubuntu1
pyzmq==13.0.0
salt==2014.1.0-31-g0998b54
simplejson==2.3.2
timelib==0.2.4
ufw==0.31.1-1
unattended-upgrades==0.1
unittest-xml-reporting==1.7.0
virtualenv==1.11
wadllib==1.3.0
wsgiref==0.1.2
zope.interface==3.6.1

Is there any more info that I can provide?

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: closed
  • Created 10 years ago
  • Comments: 48 (5 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Most upvoted comments

Is this the same issue as I’m having? Virtualenv works when installed with pip but not with easy_install. I have a different stacktrace to the OP though.

The ones using ez_setup.py have these versions:

pip 1.5 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-1.5-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)
setuptools 2.0.2
virtualenv 1.11

whereas the ones using distribute_setup.py have

pip 1.5 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-1.5-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)
distribute 0.6.49
virtualenv 1.11

The following are all done on a clean vagrant ‘precise64’ Ubuntu box.

WORKING:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y curl && curl https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py | sudo python
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv
virtualenv ve

WORKING:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y curl && curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | sudo python
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv
virtualenv ve

WORKING:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y curl && curl https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py | sudo python
sudo easy_install pip
sudo easy_install virtualenv
virtualenv ve # Doesn't work
sudo pip uninstall virtualenv
sudo pip install virtualenv
rm -rf ve
virtualenv ve

WORKING:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y curl && curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | sudo python
sudo easy_install pip
sudo easy_install virtualenv
virtualenv ve # Doesn't work
sudo pip uninstall virtualenv
sudo pip install virtualenv
rm -rf ve
virtualenv ve

NOT WORKING:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y curl && curl https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py | sudo python
sudo easy_install virtualenv
virtualenv ve

NOT WORKING:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y curl && curl https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py | sudo python
sudo easy_install pip
sudo easy_install virtualenv
virtualenv ve

NOT WORKING:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y curl && curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | sudo python
sudo easy_install virtualenv
virtualenv ve

NOT WORKING:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y curl && curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | sudo python
sudo easy_install pip
sudo easy_install virtualenv
virtualenv ve

The NOT WORKING ones all produce this output:

vagrant@precise64:~$ virtualenv ve
New python executable in ve/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...
  Complete output from command /home/vagrant/ve/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; pip...ll\"] + sys.argv[1:])" setuptools pip:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/log.py", line 8, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools, pip...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.11', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv.py", line 820, in main
    symlink=options.symlink)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv.py", line 988, in create_environment
    install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv.py", line 956, in install_wheel
    'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1'
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.7.egg/virtualenv.py", line 898, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /home/vagrant/ve/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; pip...ll\"] + sys.argv[1:])" setuptools pip failed with error code 1
+9
flyte on Jan 6, 2014

Reverting virtualenv to version 1.10.1 (instead of 1.11) fixes the issue.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20925329/trouble-with-creating-a-virtual-environment-in-windows-8-python-3-3/20959427#20959427

+1
jaytaylor on Jan 6, 2014
Read more comments on GitHub
← virtualenv: The directory or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
virtualenv: Using venv creator creates broken environment in Ubuntu 22.04 →